wiredInUSA November 2018

Cables for three firsts

On-deck/off-deck repairs

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A subsea engineering services firm, Irish Sea Contractors, has launched a subsea power cable repair solution and in-house subsea jointer training program. The new technology is said to address the challenges of lifting subsea cables to the cable ship deck for repair. Irish Sea Contractors is targeting subsea cable operators and turnkey cable repair solution providers who operate in water depths down to 200m and on cables up to 220kV. The system is based on the simple premise of replicating a cable repair ship deck, but subsea. A unique habitat design can be pre-loaded with all required cable jointing and repair equipment prior to deployment. The system can be used on-deck for cable repairs when a cable lift is unavoidable, or deployed by deck cranes to undertake subsea repairs on a cable in situ. Irish Sea Contractors’ comprehensive in- house subsea jointer training program will smooth the uptake of the subsea cable repair solution. Irish Sea Contractors has launched a subsea power cable repair solution

Prysmian has won three turnkey projects to supply and install a total of 345km of submarine inter-array cable systems for France’s first large-scale offshore wind farms. Two of the projects from Eolien Maritime France (EMF) are for offshore wind farms located off the North France coast. Those contracts are worth more than €200 million, and are expected to be completed in 2019. The third project is worth over €20 million, and has been secured by a consortium between Prysmian and Louis Dreyfus Travocean. The three wind farms will require 33kV three- core submarine cable systems with XLPE insulation. Prysmian will rely on the resources of NSW, General Cable’s subsidiary, with cable cores manufactured at the group’s center of excellence in Montereau-Fault- Yonne, France, and assembled and finished in Nordenham, Germany. Delivery and commissioning of the cables is expected between 2020 and 2022, depending on individual project timelines.

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